Fang Ming: "..."
The gap between the worlds of these two works was not something that parallel worlds could explain.
The thoughts of the Desolate Heaven Emperor were almost in sync with those of the Immortal Emperor's primordial spirit.
If Fang Ming hadn't pointed out the truth of the Void Sea, they would never have conceived of the concept of a "world of works."
They would only have thought in terms of the Upper Realm, parallel worlds, or higher-level worlds.
Fang Ming mused, "Even if I spoke of the Void Sea, the Desolate Emperor would probably interpret it as a sea larger than the Boundary Sea."
"These people, like the Six Sages of the Primordial World, are limited by their own worldviews. The Five Sages of the Heavenly Dao consider chaos the origin of all worlds, while the Desolate Heaven Emperor would also believe the Void Sea to be merely a higher-level sea than the Boundary Sea..."
"A closed world is like this... a semi-open, semi-closed world isn't much better..."
Fang Ming's thoughts were unrelated to the Desolate Heaven Emperor's intention to speak further.
Fang Ming took out the many cultivation scriptures he had studied.
The Desolate Heaven Emperor also expounded on his own path of cultivation.
The two compared the differences in their perfect cultivation systems, one original and one fanfiction, and found... that ninety-nine percent of the cultivation content was similar! Ninety-nine percent of the cultivation methods were similar!
"Yet, following these two cultivation methods leads to perfect Immortal Kings of different strengths, perfect Quasi-Immortal Emperors..."
Fang Ming had almost completely clarified the relationship between them.
The Desolate Heaven Emperor, after comparing the two cultivation systems, had become even more convinced of the parallel world theory.
Where in the world could there be a cultivation system so bizarre, ninety-nine percent similar, yet resulting in a power level one tier lower?
If it wasn't a parallel world, it was simply inexplicable!
Fang Ming and the Desolate Heaven Emperor discussed the one percent difference for a very long time.
Ultimately, neither of them could pinpoint why that one percent difference could cause such a disparity in strength.
However, Fang Ming gained a great deal.
The Desolate Heaven Emperor was a Quasi-Immortal Emperor in the fanfiction cultivation system.
Although his strength was problematic, he was still a "Quasi-Immortal Emperor."
The cultivation experience from Immortal King to Supreme Giant, and then breaking through to Quasi-Immortal Emperor, was valuable.
Ninety-nine percent similarity, with only one percent difference.
This meant that ninety-nine percent of the insights were also very effective for Fang Ming.
Although the path to Quasi-Immortal Emperor could not be copied.
Every Quasi-Immortal Emperor had to forge their own unique path to attain emperorship.
However... the insights from peak Immortal King to Supreme Giant were still useful.
As for Fang Ming having "scriptures"? It was like listening to someone lecture, not like an energy converter.
Merely studying cultivation scriptures was not as good as the personal, dedicated guidance of the Desolate Heaven Emperor, a Quasi-Immortal Emperor himself.
Several years later.
Fang Ming departed.
After leaving, he glanced back at the Boundary Sea, feeling that after this trip, he might not return for a long time.
...
After Fang Ming left.
In a ripple of the Boundary Sea, there was a small world with a volume of over ten thousand solar systems.
This small world had been merged by Fang Ming into the Heavenly Dragon world, increasing its volume by the size of one solar system.
The fusion of the two worlds, increasing the volume by one ten-thousandth, was naturally noticed by the native powerhouses of this small world.
According to the historical records of the Heavenly Dragon world.
In the year 1091 AD, an official responsible for astronomy and calendrics reported celestial changes to Emperor Zhezong in court.
Besides the seven stars such as the镇星 (Saturn) and 辰星 (Mercury), 长夷 (Venus), and 荧惑 (Mars)... more distant stars had disappeared.
Instead, a vast continent was visible, with immortals residing on it, gods and deities flying through the air, moving mountains and seas.
Emperor Zhezong, upon hearing this, considered it an auspicious sign and rejoiced greatly, his dragon face beaming with delight.
He bestowed a hundred taels of gold upon the astronomer.
He personally went to the Altar of Heaven to pay homage to the heavens, praying for immortals to descend and grant him longevity.
This was to no avail.
Thus, Emperor Zhezong dispatched tens of thousands of men to seek immortals and pursue the Dao.
In the year 1100 AD.
After nine years of seeking immortals with no results, Emperor Zhezong, due to excessive indulgence with women, passed away and abdicated.
Upon Zhezong's demise, Huizong ascended the throne.
Huizong, from a young age, had a fondness for calligraphy, painting, horse riding, and archery, and held a deep interest in calligraphy.
Song Huizong revered the Dao, even calling himself the "Daoist Emperor." He continued to send people in search of immortals and incessantly increased rewards and titles for Taoist temples and eminent Taoist masters.
Zhang Jixian, the thirtieth Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain, was first enfeoffed by Huizong as "Mr. Xujing," and later received further titles such as "Xujing Chonghong Wudao Zhenjun" and "Xuanfeng Yanhua Tianzun."
During Emperor Huizong's reign, there were the Liangshan uprising and the Fang La uprising.
However, despite some unrest in the court and the country, the Liangshan rebels were pacified and Fang La was suppressed, neither truly shaking the Song Dynasty's rule.
In the distant land of Baishan and Heishui, the saying "Jurchens not numbering ten thousand are invincible, once ten thousand, they cannot be defeated" began to circulate.
In the year 1126 AD, the first year of Jingkang, Jin soldiers marched south.
In his panic, Emperor Huizong was visited by a high-ranking Taoist master named Guo Jing, who claimed to be able to perform the Taoist art of "Six Jia Divine Soldiers," summoning heavenly troops and generals.
Huizong believed him implicitly, granted him an official position of the first rank, and sent seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven men to accompany him in forming the array.
Outside the Xuanhua Gate of Bianjing, Guo Jing deployed his formation. However, under the Jin cavalry, the so-called Six Jia Divine Soldiers proved useless, and no heavenly troops or generals appeared.
Amidst the chaos, Guo Jing, who had made preparations, absconded with a large amount of gold and silver treasures bestowed by the Song Emperor, disappearing without a trace.
In the same year, the Jin army breached Bianjing. The Jin Emperor deposed Emperor Huizong and his son Emperor Qinzong Zhao Huan to the status of commoners, capturing both emperors.
In the year 1130 AD, a flying vessel crossed the boundless continent and entered the solar system.
It was called the Azure Scale Sect.
The sect leader of the Azure Scale Sect was a cultivator at the Heavenly God realm, whose strength was comparable to a practitioner who had severed three paths of the Immortal realm.
On the flying vessel were cultivators at the Blood Transfusion realm, Grotto-Heaven realm, Spirit Transformation realm, and even Venerable and Divine Fire realms.
These were all disciples of the Azure Scale Sect.
The sect leader of the Azure Scale Sect discovered that the volume of the world had increased, and thus came to investigate. After forty years of travel, he finally descended upon the solar system.
His gaze fell upon Earth, where he saw hundreds of millions of intelligent beings.
In the year 1131 AD.
The flying vessel landed on Earth!
In the original plot of the Heavenly Dragon, in 1090 AD, the Heavenly Dragon storyline began with the conflict between the Eastern and Western factions of the Boundless Sword Sect.
In 1095 AD, merely five years later, Xiao Feng committed suicide, and the Heavenly Dragon storyline concluded.
And in 1199 AD, the fifth year of Qingyuan in the Southern Song Dynasty, the Legend of the Condor Heroes storyline began, with Guo Jing and Yang Kang born in 1200.
The Heavenly Dragon storyline concluded in 1095 AD, and the Legend of the Condor Heroes storyline began in 1199 AD, a gap of one hundred and four years.
During these one hundred and four years, the Northern Song Dynasty gave way to the Southern Song Dynasty. In the martial arts world, protagonists of Heavenly Dragon like Duan Yu and Xu Zhu had already exhausted their lifespans and were buried in their graves.
This was a time point situated between Heavenly Dragon and Condor Heroes.
In the original plot, this was the fate.
However, when the sect leader of the Azure Scale Sect set foot on the planet Earth during this blank period between the Heavenly Dragon and Condor Heroes storylines, just five years after the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty,
Everything changed.
The Azure Scale Sect was a sect.
A sect required quality disciples.
The sect leader of the Azure Scale Sect, with his divine sense at the Heavenly God realm, swept across Earth. In the Central Plains, he discovered many cultivators with excellent spiritual states but extremely weak strength.